That's a pretty vague statement. Personally, I found Kanon to be vastly more enjoyable dubbed.

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Hmm put it this way. Yuuichi in the sub was much more subtle and not as arrogant compared to all the little quips he'd use to belittle the other girls with him when I would watch the dubbed version.

Maybe im putting too much thought into it but I did see a difference. Might have just been the episode since it was a pretty sad episode in which you can see it really brought him much more down to earth.

Watched all of Heroic Age(except for one I fell asleep on, so I have to rewatch that). Nice sci-fi/war show with some good space battles and monster fighting. Simple plot: Humans are being threatened with annhilation by aliens, and their only hope is a young boy who turns into a uber-powerful giant monster. But otherwise is a good and entertaining show.

One gripe character wise is Dhianeila who alot of times cries or seems on the verge of crying. You could make a drinking game out of everytime she does

I am so hooked. I can't believe Natsuno died. It made me rage so hard. I want the doctor and monk to team up with the kids and kick the ever loving you know what out of these vampires. I loathe these losers.

Read Nozoki Ana. And now the waiting game again for another week . . .

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It's out already.
Nice, They usually don't come out this early on Sundays.

I like how determined Kido is.
I'm not quite sure what to think of Emiru and the oni-chan stuff,But since she was looking at his picture I kinda get the feeling he might be dead.
That is most likely wrong though.

Double-spoiler tags like a boss. If you haven't seen this show up to here, close this post and just do it already. Go on. I'll wait.

The episode got off to a strong start with Melody. She continues to impress me, and it's probably helped by the bizarre character design by this point (I would have said "despite" before)... don't underestimate her, ever. The discussion about what it means to be in their line of work was enlightening, and, well, the outfit was hilarious.

Next, new characters. I so can't wait to see what they do with these guys.

As soon as he showed up, I was thinking, is that... Then, the name drop.

It was like an atomic bomb of tension just went off. Here was Neon, talking normally with not just a bad guy, but the bad guy and was blisfully unaware. The fortune added a lot of flavor to the scene, especially when it was expanded on later in the episode, and he was able to gleam a few things from it: Half his troupes would die, but he would emerge victorious. That was exactly what he was hoping for.

From there, it was a brilliant, morbid rollercoaster ride, ratcheting things up further, and coming crashing down. The way they used the music here was incredible, and things moved so quickly. The ending sequence was brilliant. These are the kinds of people that Killua and Gon just barely escaped from, and these are the kinds of people that Kurapika has already killed one of.

...However scary these guys are, Kurapika is seeming all the more terrifying by this point with every bit of new information that we get about them. The Phantom Troupe are amazing villains.

The violence also hit new extremes... Indoor worms? What the ****? And here I was thinking that things were messed up before.

So, all in all an amazing episode. With shows like this and Fullmetal Alchemist showing just what they can do with the shounen formula, my expectations are being completely redefined.

Now my biggest complaint: They really need to give Leorio more interesting things to do.

Episode 29 was a stand-alone, but a really nice one. In particular, this episode featured some nice background art, and the story of the bicyclist and long-distance summer ride was an enjoyable one.

Episodes 30 and 31 were both arc episodes, beginning the Cure Moonlight arc and leading up to my favorite episode in the series (a Tsubomi one, but the Cure Moonlight arc is awesome). Story-wise, these episodes were interesting in a lot of ways

First, is Sasorina. From the get-go, she shows heavy emotional scars from her near-defeat some episodes prior, but in an unusual way. There is goodness within her, and recent developments have caused it to come closer to the surface.

Yuri, too shows heavy emotional scars, and the others finally become aware of what she has been dealing with from the first episode. She is having to deal with her utter failure as a hero, and as a failure to protect those that she loved. She can no longer fight, and she can do little but watch from the sidelines, even as those who took her place come dangerously close to making the same mistakes. At the same time, she doesn't angst about it, but continues in a solemn, withdrawn, but resolute state.

It was a heartbreaking scene when it showed Tsubomi contemplate what the death of Coffret would mean and how easily he could die. And, in this show, people can die. In a powerful but wordless scene, she strokes the fairy's head while crying, in a show of empathy for Cologne, who already has died, and fear and sadness of what it would mean if Coffret died also. The scene was only a few seconds, but it really stood out here.

That was some really sad stuff, and surprisingly dark for a show like this. Dark being relative to “happy magical girl shows where nothing (too) bad ever happens”... Not Hunter X Hunter or Madoka Magica

Of course, the show isn't all sad, and the lighter parts probably outnumbered the others by 2-1. It's a good balance, and the show never gets too dark. The episodes also featured a lot of great expressive animation, especially from Erika (as always! She's hilarious).

I took screenshots of these episodes, great ones, but they're on my other computer, and I just keep getting further ahead into the show... I'll post them when I post my writeup of the next batch of episodes. With the character animation and pure style of this show, it's a fun one to do screenshots of.

Smile Precure up to episode 34
Eh. It's alright. Now back to shows that I actually care about.
Ok, I guess I could say more about it, but the whole show is on a "weak characters, rather funny, not much happens" angle... There just isn't much to say week over week. Speaking of shows redefining my expectations of their genres, with something like Heartcatch showing what they can do with the shoujo magical girl formula (as opposed to the seinen one in Madoka... That was great, too, but completely different from this) well, watching a show that has no interest in stepping up its game can only be seen as a disappointment. Even for the franchise, this show is weak, doing the least in terms of overall character development and story. Well, at least they're finally starting to make the other students stand out individually. It only took, what, 34 episodes to get there?

I bash because I love. If I flat-out didn't like it, I wouldn't watch it... I just want it to be better than it is.

Double-spoiler tags like a boss. If you haven't seen this show up to here, close this post and just do it already. Go on. I'll wait.

The episode got off to a strong start with Melody. She continues to impress me, and it's probably helped by the bizarre character design by this point (I would have said "despite" before)... don't underestimate her, ever. The discussion about what it means to be in their line of work was enlightening, and, well, the outfit was hilarious.

Next, new characters. I so can't wait to see what they do with these guys.

As soon as he showed up, I was thinking, is that... Then, the name drop.

It was like an atomic bomb of tension just went off. Here was Neon, talking normally with not just a bad guy, but the bad guy and was blisfully unaware. The fortune added a lot of flavor to the scene, especially when it was expanded on later in the episode, and he was able to gleam a few things from it: Half his troupes would die, but he would emerge victorious. That was exactly what he was hoping for.

From there, it was a brilliant, morbid rollercoaster ride, ratcheting things up further, and coming crashing down. The way they used the music here was incredible, and things moved so quickly. The ending sequence was brilliant. These are the kinds of people that Killua and Gon just barely escaped from, and these are the kinds of people that Kurapika has already killed one of.

...However scary these guys are, Kurapika is seeming all the more terrifying by this point with every bit of new information that we get about them. The Phantom Troupe are amazing villains.

The violence also hit new extremes... Indoor worms? What the ****? And here I was thinking that things were messed up before.

So, all in all an amazing episode. With shows like this and Fullmetal Alchemist showing just what they can do with the shounen formula, my expectations are being completely redefined.

Now my biggest complaint: They really need to give Leorio more interesting things to do.

I hated how the vampires didn't put up a fight at all. I also really wanted Natsuno to kick some butt, but that never happened. The doctor was awesome though. I hated the monk. He was such a dufus face. Anyway, I would give the show a B+.

Finished Kanon and its definitely a very cute show. Didn't quite pull at the heart like Clanaad did but I did start to like the characters towards the latter stages of the show. Solid show overall, worth the watch if you like stuff like this.

Started Welcome to the NHK! last night and my goodness this is the sort of show I have been looking for for a while. Its almost embarrassing to say how much I have in common with Satou beside the fact that im not a NEET. Right off the bat with the opening theme I knew I was going to enjoy this show and as of right now up to episode 4 have really enjoyed it. NHK is the sort of show in which I look forward to when I get the chance to sit down and watch the episodes.

Rewatching Ghost Hunt, very high quality show, there's animation in this I've never even seen in other TV series and I've forgotten how freaky it gets. I'm not a fan of live action Horror movies and American TV shows in this genre I often consider to be lame but I LOVE Ghost Hunt. It really puts you in the shoes of the protagonist, Mai Taniyama, with excellent sound and visual effects and honest laughing out loud humour when it is sensible, not out of place.

I haven't even started what I considered to be the best arc on my first watch and I've got a 10/10 on this already, it's the best show I'm currently watching and is among the top 5 I've watched this year. If you haven't see it, do yourself a favour and find out why this is one of my most solid 10/10 shows I've ever watched, it's going pretty cheap on DVD with the SAVE edition or otherwise.

So, this was a good one. This was the kind of fun and creative episode that this show really needs more of. The characher animation was hilarious here, with Yayoi in constant fangirl mode, while Nao and Akane so didn't care... All of them were awesome to watch. The creators showed a lot of love to the mecha genre, with many of the moves being shoutouts to other series. Even the enemy robots had some great tricks. Also, I think it was kind of cool that they showed one of the show's characters being that big of a fan for a type of anime that she isn't in the target demographic for... It almost makes me feel less weird about watching it

I have one episode left of Kokoro Connect. I will have much to say about that one once it's done.

Finished ep 2 of Humanity Has Declined, I'm not really inclined to watch anymore, I think it's supposed to be a comedy but I'm not really finding it funny, ep 1 was very unfunny to me and so was tasky enough to go onto 2 which was better but isn't really enough for me to want to continue. If the protagonist is supposed to be the draw of the show then I'm not finding much interesting about her either, I'm only semi-interested in her hair.

I had a great time watching this subbed while it aired, but watching it dubbed in the span of two-three days has made it much more fun! It's really great and I'm anxiously waiting for the last set to release in January. Now if only I could convince a friend to watch the show...

I had a great time watching this subbed while it aired, but watching it dubbed in the span of two-three days has made it much more fun! It's really great and I'm anxiously waiting for the last set to release in January. Now if only I could convince a friend to watch the show...

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I have friend who I'm having a hard time convincing also.
He likes the game P4A, but he thinks the characters all look like generic anime characters.

I had a great time watching this subbed while it aired, but watching it dubbed in the span of two-three days has made it much more fun! It's really great and I'm anxiously waiting for the last set to release in January. Now if only I could convince a friend to watch the show...

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I have friend who I'm having a hard time convincing also.
He likes the game P4A, but he thinks the characters all look like generic anime characters.

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Maybe you can convince him to just watch the first episode? I managed to get a few people to play and love the game, but they don't really like anime so I left it at that. I do have another friend that loves anime but won't bother with the game, so I just have to lend him my copy of the anime or something.

I had a great time watching this subbed while it aired, but watching it dubbed in the span of two-three days has made it much more fun! It's really great and I'm anxiously waiting for the last set to release in January. Now if only I could convince a friend to watch the show...

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I have friend who I'm having a hard time convincing also.
He likes the game P4A, but he thinks the characters all look like generic anime characters.

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Maybe you can convince him to just watch the first episode? I managed to get a few people to play and love the game, but they don't really like anime so I left it at that. I do have another friend that loves anime but won't bother with the game, so I just have to lend him my copy of the anime or something.

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I will.
I should probably wait till part 2 is out, He doesn't like waiting for shows.

Hunter X Hunter episode 52
Well, it's safe to say that as of this moment, this is the most I've ever been invested in a shounen fighting series. This episode was incredible, and it's been incredible for so many episodes in a row that it's truly stunning.

First, this is really rare for a shounen, in that I was worrying for the hero's safety and hoping that he stays the hell away from the current fight. Normally, one will worry for their safety, but in the context of within a fight with their current target... the targets here are so far beyond where Gon is that he has no freaking business going anywhere near these guys... and he knows it, but he's determined to fight. How? The boy is a monster, so I know he's got something up his sleeve.

Why is he a monster? Never forget that Gon is the kind of person who will snap a man's wrists with a smile and threaten to electrocute someone to death... and that's when he's "playing around". Here, his monstrous nature was again brought to the forefront. In this episode, Gon declares that he will never forgive the man who cried over the death of his friend, and he felt anger at the mere thought... With as scary as Gon has already shown himself, it reached a whole new level here, and he only had, what, a minute of screen time?

While last episode featured the carnage of the fight in the forefront from the Spider's perspectice, this one focused more on the Mafia's perspective, capturing the hopelessness they faced against their foe, especially when they had very limited information about them, yet knew how utterly annihilated that their best forces were becoming in the face of it.

The main fight was a spectacle as well, and on a lot of levels. It was visually exciting for starters, but the rules of Nen added another dimension to it. Nothing is God-modded in Hunter X Hunter, and however unstoppable Chrollo seems to be, he has weaknesses to, and watching him clash against the other behemoths was awesome... These guys are here for one thing: To do a job, and to do it as efficiently as possible. A lesser show would pad the hell out of this part, but instead, the show keeps moving at a break-neck pace (not literally, this time, last time however...) and this is the biggest fight the series has seen so far. I was previously impressed by how well they handled the Gon Vs Hisoka fight, and in the grand scheme of things, they're small fry compared to Chrollo and Silva.

Finally, in the scenes with Kurapika, I can't ever forget that Neon and her father are still targets of his, so every scene with them is very tense... Especially now that there are no witnesses and they are actively getting in the way of his spider hunt, though there's a reason he can't. Kurapika is actually the most helpless he's ever been here, in that Neon's survival right now is the only thing keeping from being instantly revealed to the spiders. The instant he reveals his chains, the jig is up. He's deeply uncomfortable with the proposition for help offered by Gon and Killua. He's simultaneously so prideful as to reject all help, but at the same time is so helpless.

Finally finished Cowboy Bebop.
Don't really know what to say... It's a good show and I can see why it's so popular, I was just kinda disappointed by the ending.

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so would you agree with me, that it is overrated anytime someone calls it the greatest Anime of all time?

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Well I guess anyone can have their own opinion on the GOAT, But yes I do.
I feel like most people that would say that are people who haven't seen any other anime or older people that think anything new is shit.
I like Samurai Champloo more overall.

Finally finished Cowboy Bebop.
Don't really know what to say... It's a good show and I can see why it's so popular, I was just kinda disappointed by the ending.

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so would you agree with me, that it is overrated anytime someone calls it the greatest Anime of all time?

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Well I guess anyone can have their own opinion on the GOAT, But yes I do.
I feel like most people that would say that are people who haven't seen any other anime or older people that think anything new is ****.
I like Samurai Champloo more overall.

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well in context of older people. I am 30 years old. But I still think Bebop is overrated. I don't dislike it. And I infact liked it. I just think it is overrated by many. I didin;t think it was as great as most people do. I found a lot of flaws in the story and in particular vicious who to me was a shallow plot device character that existed solely for Spike to kill and nothing more. because he had hardly any development. he was just labeled as bad, he wanted to kill spike, and take over the mob. no reason, or motive. He just wants it and that is how it is. So i hated everything about the character of vicious and that made me not like the series as much as many others for that reason.

I liked other episodes in the anime better then the main plot of the story that is told in only like 5 episodes. so the anime's plot just became meh to me in the end because of vicious's lame ass.

I honestly never saw all of Champloo, i didn't get into it as much when started watching it. I liked Mugen though. but I didn;t get pulled into champloo's plot when i started watching it, and thus i missed a lot of episodes just like I have done currently with casshern sins. Just like with Samurai 7 I am sort off bored watching that, and i often felt the same watching Champloo because the plot didn't pull me in. Same with moribito guardian of the spirit as DJ said in another thread recently. it is boring and slow. I did finish that one out of boredom when it aired. but I'd never watch it again. good characters, and animation. but Dj was right when he said it was slow as hell.

so would you agree with me, that it is overrated anytime someone calls it the greatest Anime of all time?

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Well I guess anyone can have their own opinion on the GOAT, But yes I do.
I feel like most people that would say that are people who haven't seen any other anime or older people that think anything new is ****.
I like Samurai Champloo more overall.

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well in context of older people. I am 30 years old. But I still think Bebop is overrated. I don't dislike it. And I infact liked it. I just think it is overrated by many. I didin;t think it was as great as most people do. I found a lot of flaws in the story and in particular vicious who to me was a shallow plot device character that existed solely for Spike to kill and nothing more. because he had hardly any development. he was just labeled as bad, he wanted to kill spike, and take over the mob. no reason, or motive. He just wants it and that is how it is. So i hated everything about the character of vicious and that made me not like the series as much as many others for that reason.

I liked other episodes in the anime better then the main plot of the story that is told in only like 5 episodes. so the anime's plot just became meh to me in the end because of vicious's lame ass.

I honestly never saw all of Champloo, i didn't get into it as much when started watching it. I liked Mugen though. but I didn;t get pulled into champloo's plot when i started watching it, and thus i missed a lot of episodes just like I have done currently with casshern sins. Just like with Samurai 7 I am sort off bored watching that, and i often felt the same watching Champloo because the plot didn't pull me in. Same with moribito guardian of the spirit as DJ said in another thread recently. it is boring and slow. I did finish that one out of boredom when it aired. but I'd never watch it again. good characters, and animation. but Dj was right when he said it was slow as hell.

then i also like Shounen, though I will lulz at Bleach like anyone else at this point where at one time it was becoming my favorite Anime. but that drastically fell off years ago

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I feel the same if they would have given Visicous a back story maybe I woulda liked him better, Also with Julia I didn't give a shit about her. She appears in what 2 episodes and I still don't understand her significance to spike.
I still really like the episodic part of the show.

We pretty much like the same shows so..
You really need to watch Darker than Black, It's mainly episodic until the end, but it has some of the best fight scenes I've seen even if they are kinda short.

Well I guess anyone can have their own opinion on the GOAT, But yes I do.
I feel like most people that would say that are people who haven't seen any other anime or older people that think anything new is ****.
I like Samurai Champloo more overall.

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well in context of older people. I am 30 years old. But I still think Bebop is overrated. I don't dislike it. And I infact liked it. I just think it is overrated by many. I didin;t think it was as great as most people do. I found a lot of flaws in the story and in particular vicious who to me was a shallow plot device character that existed solely for Spike to kill and nothing more. because he had hardly any development. he was just labeled as bad, he wanted to kill spike, and take over the mob. no reason, or motive. He just wants it and that is how it is. So i hated everything about the character of vicious and that made me not like the series as much as many others for that reason.

I liked other episodes in the anime better then the main plot of the story that is told in only like 5 episodes. so the anime's plot just became meh to me in the end because of vicious's lame ass.

I honestly never saw all of Champloo, i didn't get into it as much when started watching it. I liked Mugen though. but I didn;t get pulled into champloo's plot when i started watching it, and thus i missed a lot of episodes just like I have done currently with casshern sins. Just like with Samurai 7 I am sort off bored watching that, and i often felt the same watching Champloo because the plot didn't pull me in. Same with moribito guardian of the spirit as DJ said in another thread recently. it is boring and slow. I did finish that one out of boredom when it aired. but I'd never watch it again. good characters, and animation. but Dj was right when he said it was slow as hell.

then i also like Shounen, though I will lulz at Bleach like anyone else at this point where at one time it was becoming my favorite Anime. but that drastically fell off years ago

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I feel the same if they would have given Visicous a back story maybe I woulda liked him better, Also with Julia I didn't give a **** about her. She appears in what 2 episodes and I still don't understand her significance to spike.
I still really like the episodic part of the show.

We pretty much like the same shows so..
You really need to watch Darker than Black, It's mainly episodic until the end, but it has some of the best fight scenes I've seen even if they are kinda short.

They have some of the show to watch Funimations youtube.

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I shall add it to my list. someone else has told me to watch it before i think. i believe it was firefly.

But I still think Bebop is overrated. I don't dislike it. And I infact liked it. I just think it is overrated by many. I didin;t think it was as great as most people do. I found a lot of flaws in the story and in particular vicious who to me was a shallow plot device character that existed solely for Spike to kill and nothing more. because he had hardly any development. he was just labeled as bad, he wanted to kill spike, and take over the mob. no reason, or motive. He just wants it and that is how it is. So i hated everything about the character of vicious and that made me not like the series as much as many others for that reason.

I liked other episodes in the anime better then the main plot of the story that is told in only like 5 episodes. so the anime's plot just became meh to me in the end because of vicious's lame ass.

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I feel the same if they would have given Visicous a back story maybe I woulda liked him better, Also with Julia I didn't give a **** about her. She appears in what 2 episodes and I still don't understand her significance to spike.
I still really like the episodic part of the show.

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Apparently they couldn't do a back story on Spike because of what its content would be

I randomly watched an episode of School Rumble where they were all on a boat and there was some guy flying a hang glider I think.
Watched the first episode of Gurren Lagann a few years ago, I never really gave it a fair chance.
Haven't seen the Fate series kinda don't want to since Martin talks about Saber constantly lol. That isn't a good reason to not watch it though lol.
Claymore wasn't that interested by the first episode, but that was few years back also.
Watched the first 2 episodes of Blood +.. a few years back also.
The others I haven't watched.

I'd probably like Trigun since it's like GunXSword, one of those episodic series.
I know they released a movie for it pretty recently.

I randomly watched an episode of School Rumble where they were all on a boat and there was some guy flying a hang glider I think.
Watched the first episode of Gurren Lagann a few years ago, I never really gave it a fair chance.
Haven't seen the Fate series kinda don't want to since Martin talks about Saber constantly lol. That isn't a good reason to not watch it though lol.
Claymore wasn't that interested by the first episode, but that was few years back also.
Watched the first 2 episodes of Blood +.. a few years back also.
The others I haven't watched.

I'd probably like Trigun since it's like GunXSword, one of those episodic series.
I know they released a movie for it pretty recently.

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School rumble is my favorite comedy series Anime.

Fate is good, don't let martin or anyone else's fanboy feelings of the characters turn you off from it. FSN is better in the visual novel then the Anime as it wasn't as well done depth wise. Fate/Zero is 100% better then FSN in that regard.

I finished up Welcome to the N.H.K last night. Amazing anime really. I absolutely loved it from start to finish. Might be due to the fact that so many topics brought up resounded with me and how much I really liked the characters, especially Satou. Misaki at first I didn't like her because I found her manipulative in why she wanted have a relationship with Satou but once you find out her true problem it all makes sense (even though its still a messed up reason). Its funny considering I know people who are hikikomoris like Satou and ever wonder if they experience the same anxiety and such they showed in the show. Its a bit embarrassing as I mentioned before how bar some things I really saw myself in Satou but that's probably why I enjoyed this anime and why it was such an eye opener for me. Im glad I finally was able to watch the anime after putting it off for so long and would definitely recommend it to others if ever wondering whether to watch it or not.

I hear the manga is pretty good as well, might check that out.@jiggajoefreezy